supder - Stardance

Ship #1 Pending review

@allenlin0728 on supder · about 1 hour ago

This is a half- functional robotic hexapod that is fully designed and built from scratch. I have had at least 4 iterations of this and a loads of setbacks, including 200 dollar controllers getting fried, parts breaking, 3d printers failing and other things. And only now has the project started working fine. As Stardance ends and I am no longer able to work on this due to not having enough funds to fix some of the legs of the robot which are currently broken and being extremely busy recently, I need to submit this to reinburse my project. I will try to come back to this to finish it and refine it but this is the most I can do right now…

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@allenlin0728 on supder · 12 days ago

21m 41s logged

Set spooder back up
After realizing all my old components were a little fried, I bought replacements on amazon and replaced them. Additionally, I put in the esp32-s3 dev board, however I had to use double sided tape to mount it because the screw holes for the raspbery pi did not fit the dev board.

after I finished this, I rewired the entire thing. However, I realised I rewired it wrong, where I made one leg have three pins in sequential order, like where FRH was 0, FRF was 1, and FRT was 2, instead of 0, 3, 6.

I decided to fix this in code instead of hardware because it was cleaner anyways and easier to do

Lastly I had to reroute the new wires for i2c.

The accelerometer I bought never arrived so i will not be doing anything PID cause im too stupid and my old one was fried. Also because I don’t have enough time I probably won’t set up the led matrix very well and might not even work, i just want reinbursements for now.

tomorrow I want to actually start testing my code and see if i have to still do the stupid homing of all my servos again, also because all my code is in arduino ide, it has not been logged, and I JUST set it up for stardance, but I was told hours do not matter for just hardware reinbursements.

hopefully i will finish and not be in debt anymore